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Chris is the Founder and CEO of Castle Hall, where he leads a team of more than 80 professionals conducting operational, ESG, risk and cyber due diligence on behalf of more than 100 asset owners worldwide.
Chris is one of the industry’s very first operational due diligence professionals. After audit experience with both Deloitte and PwC, Chris began his due diligence career in 1997 with the Atlantic Philanthropies (a multi billion dollar foundation and early hedge fund investor). Chris then joined UBP (2001) and co-founded Amber Partners (2004).
Chris is an advocate for enhanced best practices across the asset management industry. In addition to his work at Castle Hall, he is a member of the CFA Institute Global Industry Standards Steering Committee, and is a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Fund Governance Association. Chris also served for 6 years (2011-2016) as a member of the CFA Institute Capital Markets Policy Council, acting as Chair for a maximum three-year term.
Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a CFA Charterholder.
Anne Coady leads the Abu Dhabi office. Anne manages a global team of diligence analysts and is responsible for the service delivery of more than 2,000 due diligence reviews across hedge funds; private equity, infrastructure and real estate funds; and a wide range of long only investment structures through DiligenceHubTM, Castle Hall’s award winning, online diligence portal.
Anne has more than two decades of accounting, operational and due diligence experience, including almost a decade at PwC Cayman as Director of Global Compliance / Administrative Services, focusing on offshore corporate administration and structuring. Anne is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association and has extensive experience in corporate governance, compliance and anti-money laundering best practices.
Maryse Girard is a Director of Castle Hall and heads the firm’s ESG (environmental, social and governance) due diligence program. She is a long-standing advocate for responsible investing and holds the Responsible Investment Professional Certification.
Maryse previously assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer on inception of the firm, where, over the first ten years of Castle Hall’s business, she was responsible for establishing and growing the firm’s operational infrastructure across finance, human resources and compliance.
Max is a Director at Castle Hall. At Castle Hall, Max conducts operational due diligence reviews across a wide range of hedge fund, fund of funds, private equity and other alternative and traditional fund structures. Prior to joining Castle Hall, he spent three years with National Bank of Canada as an Operations Analyst within the Wealth Management Group.
Max sits on the AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) Québec Committee. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Université de Sherbrooke, and is CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charterholder.
Angela is a Senior Manager at Castle Hall. At Castle Hall, Angela is involved in the review process of the monitoring and verification products, overseeing the work of more than ten analysts. The review of OpsMonitor and OpsVerification covers more than 500 funds across a wide range of strategies and involves communicating with Managers from around the world. Additionally, she coordinates background checks with Exiger as well as reviewing the final product ahead of issuance.
Angela holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Gerald Schwartz School of Business at St. Francis Xavier University.
Christian began his alternative investment career with Man Investments with the Relative Value Team within the RMF subsidiary. During this time, he became primarily responsible for co-managing RMF’s commodities strategies and energy funds (combined $2.5 billion AUM), in addition to sourcing funds, and advising portfolio management on commodity strategies. At the same time, he was responsible for formulating and presenting market opinions.
Christian has been conducting onsite due diligence for over ten years and, having spent several years based in New York, has developed a profound knowledge of a wide range of alternative and traditional investment strategies, as well as their operational, legal, and strategy risks.
Lloyd is a Director at Castle Hall. At Castle Hall, Lloyd conducts operational due diligence reviews across a wide range of hedge fund, fund of funds, private equity and other alternative and traditional fund structures. Prior to joining Castle Hall, Lloyd was a Senior Investment Representative with Scotiabank’s discount brokerage division. Lloyd began his career as an Operations Specialist with Pivotal Payments, one of Canada’s largest independent merchant service providers.
Lloyd holds a BA in Economics from Concordia University in Montreal, has passed CFA Level I and has completed his Canadian Securities, Options licensing and Derivatives Fundamentals Courses through the Canadian Securities Institute.
Alex heads Castle Hall’s business in Australia and lead’s client relationships and diligence activities in the broader Asia Pacific region. Alex has 16 years’ experience in the investment management industry and prior to that worked in a leading London law firm. Alex established the operational due diligence program at Atlas Capital, a UK / Guernsey based fund of funds, in 2002, before moving to found Orchard Harbour, a specialist in Asia-Pacific hedge funds, in 2007. Alex joined Select Asset Management as COO in 2012, and thereafter assumed a variety of roles within OneVue, a publicly traded financial services firm, upon OneVue’s acquisition of Select in 2014.
Alex is a qualified Solicitor and a Barrister in England & Wales having completed the Bar at the College of Law in London. Alex is also an executive committee member of AIMA’s Australian chapter.
